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RESTFUL LEISURE THAT TEMPERS THE HOURS OF TOIL
| These shepherds of the Lebanon, laying aside for the nonce their daily cares, are extracting much bodily solace from stimulating coffee and grateful hookah what time they derive a certain degree of mental recreation from a game of backgammon played in the quiet courtyard of a rural café. They are seated on wooden stools, with the playing-board on a wooden trestle fixed up between them |
SMILING YOUNG FACES FRONTING A BACKGROUND OF GRACEFUL PALMS
| Children of the Lebanon lead, as a rule, an actively industrious life, especially in what is called the silk season, when the schools are closed and the people fill houses and sheds with flat baskets swarming with tiny silkworms which the young people feed with mulberry leaves while their elders prepare the branches of broom and briars on which the cocoons will later be woven |